The butterfly has emerged at last! Our little caterpillar built his chrysalis just over two weeks ago and has been inside until yesterday. We noticed the chrysalis getting darker over the past two days and then yesterday we started to see some orange.
The butterfly’s wings need to stretch and dry out before it can fly so it doesn’t do terribly much straight away. The kids were both enthralled:
Once his wings had fully expanded we took him into the garden and tried to coax him out of his home. For a little while we were worried he wouldn’t know how to get out!
But he managed to find the door eventually, with a bit of help.
This morning we watched him fly away.
It’s Daniel’s 5th birthday today. We are having a BBQ lunch at a friend’s house rather than a big party here. I’m quite relieved about that and Daniel is very happy with the arrangement which is the main thing. I’m taking the cake:
BBQ over and we’re back at home and I still haven’t published this. A photo from today:
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